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"Yup'ik Villages Ravaged by Fierce Alaska Storms"

"Halfway across the world from the typhoon-ravaged Philippines, several small, remote communities at the northwestern tip of Turtle Island have been declared disaster areas from damage wrought by severe storms and flooding in mid-November."

"The Yup’ik village of Kotlik, Alaska, along with Unalakleet and other predominantly Native communities, were ravaged beginning November 9 by a 'series of four storms battered hundreds of miles of Alaska’s west coast with near hurricane force winds, strong sea surges, freezing rain, and snow,' Governor Sean Parnell said in a press release announcing the declaration on November 16. The storms damaged villages along hundreds of miles of coastline, according to the Alaska Dispatch."